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Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour commonly known as Madame de Pompadour, was a member of the French court and was the official chief mistress of Louis XV .

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“Après nous, le déluge“meaning “After us, the flood” is a French expression, attributed to Madame de Pompadour, the lover of King Quinze of France.[1] An alternative form, attributed to Louis himself, is “Après moi, le déluge” meaning After me, the flood”).

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A very prescient observation, I must say, for a prostitute to make as the flood did come after she and Louis Quinze flew off to Heaven.

My dear friend Patrick Joseph Buchanan has today written a compelling and yet very sad comment about the future of what some of the Americans call their democracy.

I now commence to quote Patrick Joseph and do so until I note that I cease quoting him:

The Democratic Party does not want to close the door to voting on migrants who broke our laws to get here and do not belong here, as these illegals would likely vote for pro-amnesty Democrats.

In all but one of the last seven presidential elections, Republicans lost the popular vote. George W. Bush and Donald Trump won only by capturing narrow majorities in the Electoral College.

Hence the grand strategy of the left: to enlarge and alter the U.S. electorate so as to put victory as far out of reach for national Republicans as it is today for California Republicans, and to convert the GOP into America’s permanent minority party.

In the Golden State, Democrats control the governors’ chair, every elective state office, both U.S. Senate seats, 46 of 53 U.S. House seats and three-fourths of each house of the state legislature in Sacramento.

How does the left expect to permanently dispossess Middle America?

Let us count the ways.

In 2018, over 60 percent of Floridians voted to expand the electorate by restoring voting rights to 1.5 million ex-cons, all of Florida’s felons except those convicted of sex crimes and murder.

Florida gave Bush his razor-thin victory over Al Gore. Should Trump lose Florida in 2020, he is a one-term president. If the GOP loses Florida indefinitely, the presidency is probably out of reach indefinitely.

Florida’s Amendment 4 is thus a great leap forward in the direction in which the republic is being taken. Gov. Terry McAuliffe of the swing state of Virginia restored voting rights to 156,000 felons by executive order in 2016, calling it his “proudest achievement.”

In California and Oregon, moves are afoot to reduce the voting age to 17 or 16. Understandable, as high schoolers are more enthusiastic about socialism.

Last week, a bold attempt was made by House Democrats to lower the U.S. voting age to 16. It failed — this time.

Some House Democrats apparently feel that with “Medicare-for-all” and the Green New Deal of Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez on the table, they have enough progressive legislation to satisfy the socialist base.

Thanks to Gov. Jerry Brown, every adult citizen in California who gets or renews a driver’s license, gets a state ID card, or fills out a change of address form with the Department of Motor Vehicles is automatically registered to vote. Purpose: expand voter rolls to include those who have shown no interest in politics, so they can be located on Election Day and bused to the polls.

Ari Berman of Mother Jones writes that Nancy Pelosi’s 700-page For the People Act that did pass the House contains “a slew of measures designed to expand voting rights, which … include nationwide automatic voter registration, Election Day registration, two weeks of early voting in every state … restoration of voting rights for ex-felons, and declaring Election Day a federal holiday.”

House Republicans offered an amendment to the bill with language that said, “allowing illegal immigrants the right to vote devalues the franchise and diminishes the voting power of United States citizens.”

All but six Democrats voted against the GOP proposal.

The Democratic Party does not want to close the door to voting on migrants who broke our laws to get here and do not belong here, as these illegals would likely vote for pro-amnesty Democrats.

If the new U.S. electorate of, say, 2024, includes tens of millions of new voters — 16- and 17-year-olds; illegal migrants; ex-cons; new legal immigrants from Asia, Africa and Latin America who vote 70 to 90 percent Democratic, the political future of America has already been determined.

California, here we come.

As a Democratic insurance policy, Memphis Congressman Steve Cohen has introduced a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College.

Some Republicans support statehood for Puerto Rico, which would add six electoral votes that would go Democratic in presidential elections about as often as Washington, D.C.’s three have, which is always.

Ben Franklin told the lady in Philadelphia, “We have a republic, if you can keep it.” Our elites today, however, ceaselessly celebrate “our democracy.”

Yet John Adams was not optimistic about such a political system: “Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy yet, that did not commit suicide.”

Thomas Jefferson, a lifelong believer in a “natural aristocracy” among men, was contemptuous: “A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where 51 percent of the people may take away the rights of the other 49.”

Madison wrote in Federalist 10, “democracies … have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”

If one day not far off, as seems probable, tax consumers achieve a permanent hegemony over the nation’s taxpayers, and begin to impose an equality of result that freedom rarely delivers, the question of who should choose the nation’s rulers will be tabled anew.

We do not select NFL coaches or corporate executives or college professors or generals or admirals by plebiscite. What is the empirical evidence that this is the best way to choose a president or commander in chief?

Peoples are wondering that the world over, as our democracy does not appear to be an especially attractive stock.

At Washington, capital city of the terminally self-absorbed, mortal man holds to fleeting, feeble and fallible opinion, God immutable fact.

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It is my assessment that America is dying inside, being eaten away by the horror of the collapse of the middle orders, the attendant societal and religious values and customs of those orders and the ubiquity of war making for dubious purpose.

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The rich man ought not be taxed at all~~he ought be compelled to employ and train the poor man~~directly~~personally.

~~

The principal need in America today is~~financial and industrial De-Globalization~~to facilitate the promotion of the possibility for the average man to get and keep a good job with good benefits paid by the employer~~as was done not very long ago.~~

CIRE PERDUE~

~~Bene Nati, Bene Vestiti, Et Mediocriter Docti~~

~

~~La crema y nata~~

~

~~Artista de la conquista

~~

In sunshine and in shadow~~I hold tight to the Republican view of time and money~~I write night and day~~yet~~while impecunious~~I am vastly overpaid~~in that taking pay to do what I love is unfair~~to my employer~~in a fair system~~under such circumstances~~I should pay him~~not he me~~I am far, far too old a man to be sexually confused~~praise Jesus~~but I am yet young enough to be politically confused~~is anyone not~~in an absolute sense~~I am a Catholic Royalist~~in a practical sense~~I am a Classical Liberal~~a Gaullist~~a Bonapartist~~an American Nationalist Republican~~in either sense~~my head is soon for the chopping block~~to hasten my interlude with Madame La Guillotine~~I write without fear~and without favor of~any man.

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Finis Origine Pendet…

The escape commences…

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September, 1957

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Saint Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic parochial school, called, by anyone of any background, simply: “Chan~al,” a place where, of an autumn day in 1957, school, for me, began and ended in the first convening of the first grade in which a tiny nun, one Sister Dom Bosco, appeared before me, just behind the window appearing at far left of this photograph, and piped out this: “I may be small, but so then, is the Atom Bomb.”

~~

My determination to escape school commenced immediately on hearing about this Atom Bomb business and took 16 dicey and arduous years to finally accomplish.~~

“Jean-Marie Le Pen is a friend. He is dangerous for the political set because he’s the only one who’s sincere. He says out loud what many people think deep down, and what the politicians refrain from saying because they are either too demagogic or too chicken. Le Pen, with all his faults and qualities, is probably the only one who thinks about the interests of France before his own.”~~

Alain Delon~~Actor

John Daniel Begg raises cotton.

~~

In the Old South, the real Southland, we had a charming expression, when asked what an idle man did for a living:

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“Oh, he raises cotton.”

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Which meant, he did absolutely nothing at all, as cotton, “the white gold,” raises herself.

CONCEPT OF THE CATHOLIC AND ROYAL ARMY OF AMERICA (CRAA)

THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA

Seal of The Catholic University of America

Motto:

~~

Deus Lux Mea Est

~~

Acta Est Fabula

The escape concludes…

The Catholic University Of America, Washington, The Federal District of Columbia.

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1976, Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi.

“Who first seduc'd them to that foul revolt?
Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile
Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd
The Mother of Mankind"
~~
Paradise Lost
Book One
Verse 35
Our Mr Milton
https://johndanielbegg.com/2016/03/09/the-infernal-serpent-he-it-was-whose-guile--stirred-up-with-envy-and-revenge-deceived-the-mother-of-mankind

How short the list one could compile of those of whom it can be said that fame and money did not deprave?

A need more desperate, more insatiable than that for sex, for love, for food, for shelter, for golden riches, for sleep.

A need that never fails to catch the eye of SALESMEN—as that is what they are–be they preachers, politicians, scientists.

Is it so terribly, hot, cold–will the heat or cold kills us all–good gracious me–but be at peace brethren–one can find a SALESMAN to tell us yes, I can fill that void in you buddy–to any desire you have to fill the:

At Washington, capital city of the terminally self-absorbed, mortal man holds to fleeting, feeble and fallible opinion, God immutable fact.

~~

It is my assessment that America is dying inside, being eaten away by the horror of the collapse of the middle orders, the attendant societal and religious values and customs of those orders and the ubiquity of war making for dubious purpose.

~~

The rich man ought not be taxed at all~~he ought be compelled to employ and train the poor man~~directly~~personally.

~~

The principal need in America today is~~financial and industrial De-Globalization~~to facilitate the promotion of the possibility for the average man to get and keep a good job with good benefits paid by the employer~~as was done not very long ago.~~

CIRE PERDUE~

~~Bene Nati, Bene Vestiti, Et Mediocriter Docti~~

~

~~La crema y nata~~

~

~~Artista de la conquista

~~

In sunshine and in shadow~~I hold tight to the Republican view of time and money~~I write night and day~~yet~~while impecunious~~I am vastly overpaid~~in that taking pay to do what I love is unfair~~to my employer~~in a fair system~~under such circumstances~~I should pay him~~not he me~~I am far, far too old a man to be sexually confused~~praise Jesus~~but I am yet young enough to be politically confused~~is anyone not~~in an absolute sense~~I am a Catholic Royalist~~in a practical sense~~I am a Classical Liberal~~a Gaullist~~a Bonapartist~~an American Nationalist Republican~~in either sense~~my head is soon for the chopping block~~to hasten my interlude with Madame La Guillotine~~I write without fear~and without favor of~any man.

~~

Finis Origine Pendet…

The escape commences…

~~

September, 1957

~~

Saint Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic parochial school, called, by anyone of any background, simply: “Chan~al,” a place where, of an autumn day in 1957, school, for me, began and ended in the first convening of the first grade in which a tiny nun, one Sister Dom Bosco, appeared before me, just behind the window appearing at far left of this photograph, and piped out this: “I may be small, but so then, is the Atom Bomb.”

~~

My determination to escape school commenced immediately on hearing about this Atom Bomb business and took 16 dicey and arduous years to finally accomplish.~~

“Jean-Marie Le Pen is a friend. He is dangerous for the political set because he’s the only one who’s sincere. He says out loud what many people think deep down, and what the politicians refrain from saying because they are either too demagogic or too chicken. Le Pen, with all his faults and qualities, is probably the only one who thinks about the interests of France before his own.”~~

Alain Delon~~Actor

John Daniel Begg raises cotton.

~~

In the Old South, the real Southland, we had a charming expression, when asked what an idle man did for a living:

~~

“Oh, he raises cotton.”

~~

Which meant, he did absolutely nothing at all, as cotton, “the white gold,” raises herself.

CONCEPT OF THE CATHOLIC AND ROYAL ARMY OF AMERICA (CRAA)

THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA

Seal of The Catholic University of America

Motto:

~~

Deus Lux Mea Est

~~

Acta Est Fabula

The escape concludes…

The Catholic University Of America, Washington, The Federal District of Columbia.

~~

1976, Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi.

“Who first seduc'd them to that foul revolt?
Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile
Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd
The Mother of Mankind"
~~
Paradise Lost
Book One
Verse 35
Our Mr Milton
https://johndanielbegg.com/2016/03/09/the-infernal-serpent-he-it-was-whose-guile--stirred-up-with-envy-and-revenge-deceived-the-mother-of-mankind

How short the list one could compile of those of whom it can be said that fame and money did not deprave?

At Washington, capital city of the terminally self-absorbed, mortal man holds to fleeting, feeble and fallible opinion, God immutable fact.

~~

It is my assessment that America is dying inside, being eaten away by the horror of the collapse of the middle orders, the attendant societal and religious values and customs of those orders and the ubiquity of war making for dubious purpose.

~~

The rich man ought not be taxed at all~~he ought be compelled to employ and train the poor man~~directly~~personally.

~~

The principal need in America today is~~financial and industrial De-Globalization~~to facilitate the promotion of the possibility for the average man to get and keep a good job with good benefits paid by the employer~~as was done not very long ago.~~

CIRE PERDUE~

~~Bene Nati, Bene Vestiti, Et Mediocriter Docti~~

~

~~La crema y nata~~

~

~~Artista de la conquista

~~

In sunshine and in shadow~~I hold tight to the Republican view of time and money~~I write night and day~~yet~~while impecunious~~I am vastly overpaid~~in that taking pay to do what I love is unfair~~to my employer~~in a fair system~~under such circumstances~~I should pay him~~not he me~~I am far, far too old a man to be sexually confused~~praise Jesus~~but I am yet young enough to be politically confused~~is anyone not~~in an absolute sense~~I am a Catholic Royalist~~in a practical sense~~I am a Classical Liberal~~a Gaullist~~a Bonapartist~~an American Nationalist Republican~~in either sense~~my head is soon for the chopping block~~to hasten my interlude with Madame La Guillotine~~I write without fear~and without favor of~any man.

~~

Finis Origine Pendet…

The escape commences…

~~

September, 1957

~~

Saint Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic parochial school, called, by anyone of any background, simply: “Chan~al,” a place where, of an autumn day in 1957, school, for me, began and ended in the first convening of the first grade in which a tiny nun, one Sister Dom Bosco, appeared before me, just behind the window appearing at far left of this photograph, and piped out this: “I may be small, but so then, is the Atom Bomb.”

~~

My determination to escape school commenced immediately on hearing about this Atom Bomb business and took 16 dicey and arduous years to finally accomplish.~~

“Jean-Marie Le Pen is a friend. He is dangerous for the political set because he’s the only one who’s sincere. He says out loud what many people think deep down, and what the politicians refrain from saying because they are either too demagogic or too chicken. Le Pen, with all his faults and qualities, is probably the only one who thinks about the interests of France before his own.”~~

Alain Delon~~Actor

John Daniel Begg raises cotton.

~~

In the Old South, the real Southland, we had a charming expression, when asked what an idle man did for a living:

~~

“Oh, he raises cotton.”

~~

Which meant, he did absolutely nothing at all, as cotton, “the white gold,” raises herself.

CONCEPT OF THE CATHOLIC AND ROYAL ARMY OF AMERICA (CRAA)

THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA

Seal of The Catholic University of America

Motto:

~~

Deus Lux Mea Est

~~

Acta Est Fabula

The escape concludes…

The Catholic University Of America, Washington, The Federal District of Columbia.

~~

1976, Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi.

“Who first seduc'd them to that foul revolt?
Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile
Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd
The Mother of Mankind"
~~
Paradise Lost
Book One
Verse 35
Our Mr Milton
https://johndanielbegg.com/2016/03/09/the-infernal-serpent-he-it-was-whose-guile--stirred-up-with-envy-and-revenge-deceived-the-mother-of-mankind

How short the list one could compile of those of whom it can be said that fame and money did not deprave?

At Washington, capital city of the terminally self-absorbed, mortal man holds to fleeting, feeble and fallible opinion, God immutable fact.

~~

It is my assessment that America is dying inside, being eaten away by the horror of the collapse of the middle orders, the attendant societal and religious values and customs of those orders and the ubiquity of war making for dubious purpose.

~~

The rich man ought not be taxed at all~~he ought be compelled to employ and train the poor man~~directly~~personally.

~~

The principal need in America today is~~financial and industrial De-Globalization~~to facilitate the promotion of the possibility for the average man to get and keep a good job with good benefits paid by the employer~~as was done not very long ago.~~

CIRE PERDUE~

~~Bene Nati, Bene Vestiti, Et Mediocriter Docti~~

~

~~La crema y nata~~

~

~~Artista de la conquista

~~

In sunshine and in shadow~~I hold tight to the Republican view of time and money~~I write night and day~~yet~~while impecunious~~I am vastly overpaid~~in that taking pay to do what I love is unfair~~to my employer~~in a fair system~~under such circumstances~~I should pay him~~not he me~~I am far, far too old a man to be sexually confused~~praise Jesus~~but I am yet young enough to be politically confused~~is anyone not~~in an absolute sense~~I am a Catholic Royalist~~in a practical sense~~I am a Classical Liberal~~a Gaullist~~a Bonapartist~~an American Nationalist Republican~~in either sense~~my head is soon for the chopping block~~to hasten my interlude with Madame La Guillotine~~I write without fear~and without favor of~any man.

~~

Finis Origine Pendet…

The escape commences…

~~

September, 1957

~~

Saint Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic parochial school, called, by anyone of any background, simply: “Chan~al,” a place where, of an autumn day in 1957, school, for me, began and ended in the first convening of the first grade in which a tiny nun, one Sister Dom Bosco, appeared before me, just behind the window appearing at far left of this photograph, and piped out this: “I may be small, but so then, is the Atom Bomb.”

~~

My determination to escape school commenced immediately on hearing about this Atom Bomb business and took 16 dicey and arduous years to finally accomplish.~~

“Jean-Marie Le Pen is a friend. He is dangerous for the political set because he’s the only one who’s sincere. He says out loud what many people think deep down, and what the politicians refrain from saying because they are either too demagogic or too chicken. Le Pen, with all his faults and qualities, is probably the only one who thinks about the interests of France before his own.”~~

Alain Delon~~Actor

John Daniel Begg raises cotton.

~~

In the Old South, the real Southland, we had a charming expression, when asked what an idle man did for a living:

~~

“Oh, he raises cotton.”

~~

Which meant, he did absolutely nothing at all, as cotton, “the white gold,” raises herself.

CONCEPT OF THE CATHOLIC AND ROYAL ARMY OF AMERICA (CRAA)

THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA

Seal of The Catholic University of America

Motto:

~~

Deus Lux Mea Est

~~

Acta Est Fabula

The escape concludes…

The Catholic University Of America, Washington, The Federal District of Columbia.

~~

1976, Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi.

“Who first seduc'd them to that foul revolt?
Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile
Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd
The Mother of Mankind"
~~
Paradise Lost
Book One
Verse 35
Our Mr Milton
https://johndanielbegg.com/2016/03/09/the-infernal-serpent-he-it-was-whose-guile--stirred-up-with-envy-and-revenge-deceived-the-mother-of-mankind

How short the list one could compile of those of whom it can be said that fame and money did not deprave?

Into the breach of vacuum caused by cowardice, confusion and inattention, rides the one man, the caudillo, the man on the white horse.

In this respect, Trump’s seizure of what rightfully and legally is Congressional power has historic precedent running all the way back to Jefferson.

You just can’t have it both ways, kiddies. Congress either acts or the caudillo will.

The founders took virtually all American political, legal and social structure from England, Our Mother. What truly tortured many of the men who made our nation was: What to do with the figure of The King?

The best and brightest of our founders came up with this notion: a Temporary King, of which:

At Washington, capital city of the terminally self-absorbed, mortal man holds to fleeting, feeble and fallible opinion, God immutable fact.

~~

It is my assessment that America is dying inside, being eaten away by the horror of the collapse of the middle orders, the attendant societal and religious values and customs of those orders and the ubiquity of war making for dubious purpose.

~~

The rich man ought not be taxed at all~~he ought be compelled to employ and train the poor man~~directly~~personally.

~~

The principal need in America today is~~financial and industrial De-Globalization~~to facilitate the promotion of the possibility for the average man to get and keep a good job with good benefits paid by the employer~~as was done not very long ago.~~

CIRE PERDUE~

~~Bene Nati, Bene Vestiti, Et Mediocriter Docti~~

~

~~La crema y nata~~

~

~~Artista de la conquista

~~

In sunshine and in shadow~~I hold tight to the Republican view of time and money~~I write night and day~~yet~~while impecunious~~I am vastly overpaid~~in that taking pay to do what I love is unfair~~to my employer~~in a fair system~~under such circumstances~~I should pay him~~not he me~~I am far, far too old a man to be sexually confused~~praise Jesus~~but I am yet young enough to be politically confused~~is anyone not~~in an absolute sense~~I am a Catholic Royalist~~in a practical sense~~I am a Classical Liberal~~a Gaullist~~a Bonapartist~~an American Nationalist Republican~~in either sense~~my head is soon for the chopping block~~to hasten my interlude with Madame La Guillotine~~I write without fear~and without favor of~any man.

~~

Finis Origine Pendet…

The escape commences…

~~

September, 1957

~~

Saint Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic parochial school, called, by anyone of any background, simply: “Chan~al,” a place where, of an autumn day in 1957, school, for me, began and ended in the first convening of the first grade in which a tiny nun, one Sister Dom Bosco, appeared before me, just behind the window appearing at far left of this photograph, and piped out this: “I may be small, but so then, is the Atom Bomb.”

~~

My determination to escape school commenced immediately on hearing about this Atom Bomb business and took 16 dicey and arduous years to finally accomplish.~~

“Jean-Marie Le Pen is a friend. He is dangerous for the political set because he’s the only one who’s sincere. He says out loud what many people think deep down, and what the politicians refrain from saying because they are either too demagogic or too chicken. Le Pen, with all his faults and qualities, is probably the only one who thinks about the interests of France before his own.”~~

Alain Delon~~Actor

John Daniel Begg raises cotton.

~~

In the Old South, the real Southland, we had a charming expression, when asked what an idle man did for a living:

~~

“Oh, he raises cotton.”

~~

Which meant, he did absolutely nothing at all, as cotton, “the white gold,” raises herself.

CONCEPT OF THE CATHOLIC AND ROYAL ARMY OF AMERICA (CRAA)

THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA

Seal of The Catholic University of America

Motto:

~~

Deus Lux Mea Est

~~

Acta Est Fabula

The escape concludes…

The Catholic University Of America, Washington, The Federal District of Columbia.

~~

1976, Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi.

“Who first seduc'd them to that foul revolt?
Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile
Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd
The Mother of Mankind"
~~
Paradise Lost
Book One
Verse 35
Our Mr Milton
https://johndanielbegg.com/2016/03/09/the-infernal-serpent-he-it-was-whose-guile--stirred-up-with-envy-and-revenge-deceived-the-mother-of-mankind

How short the list one could compile of those of whom it can be said that fame and money did not deprave?

Killing people is just a stone blast, that is, until…

Using God to promote communism~~a decades long infiltration.

The executioner becomes the dead man.

john begg

For God. For King. For Country

The Communist Party USA (CPUSA) has a Religion Commission, where socialist pastors, religious academics, and laypeople network to spread Marxist ideas through their churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques. The United States is a deeply religious country. Very early on, the CPUSA realized that if the United States was ever to be brought to socialism, religion would have to be harnessed to the task.

As the United States is primarily a Christian country, the communists began to infiltrate churches, seminaries, and theological colleges even before the Bolshevik revolution of 1917.

In Congressional testimony in July 1953, former CPUSA Chairman Ben Gitlow described how Harry Ward, later a secret party member, established the first communist front in America:

“The Methodist Federation for Social Action … was first organized by a group of Socialist, Marxist clergymen of the Methodist church headed by Dr. Harry F. Ward. … Its objective was to transform the Methodist Church and Christianity into an instrument for the achievement of socialism. It was established in 1907, 12 years before the organization of the Communist Party in the United States in 1919.”

A few days later, another high-ranking communist defector exposed Dr. Ward as a card-carrying communist, and a powerful “agent of influence” for the communist cause:

“The Methodist Federation for Social Action, headed by the Rev. Harry F. Ward, whom I have already identified as a Party member, was invaluable to the Communist Party in its united-front organizations campaign. It was invaluable because through it the Party was able to get contacts with thousands of ministers all over the country.”

That defector, Manning Johnson, also went on to reveal how the CPUSA’s Soviet masters had shifted emphasis from destroying religion to co-opting it:

“Once the tactic of infiltrating religious organizations was set by the Kremlin, the actual mechanics of implementing the ‘new line’ was a question of following the general experiences of the living church movement in Russia, where the Communists discovered that the destruction of religion could proceed much faster through infiltration of the church by Communist agents operating within the church itself.

“The Communist leadership in the United States realized that the infiltration tactic in this country would have to adapt itself to American conditions and the religious make-up peculiar to this country. In the earliest stages it was determined that with only small forces available it would be necessary to concentrate Communist agents in the seminaries and divinity schools. The practical conclusion drawn by the Red leaders was that these institutions would make it possible for a small Communist minority to influence the ideology of future clergymen in the paths most conducive to Communist purposes.”

According to Johnson, the CPUSA set about infiltrating American Christianity at every level:

“In the early 1930s the Communists instructed thousands of their members to rejoin their ancestral religious groups and to operate in cells designed to take control of churches for Communist purposes. This method was not only propounded but was executed with great success among large elements of American church life. Communists operating a double-pronged infiltration, both through elements of Communist-controlled clergy and Communist-controlled laymen, managed to pervert and weaken entire strata of religious life in the United States.”

All over the United States, CPUSA members went back to their childhood churches. Over time, many gained positions of influence. Much of this activity ramped up during the Vietnam era.

Some examples follow:

In Utah, Wayne Holley was a proud member of the Mormon Church and founder of the Joe Hill Club of the CPUSA. Holley worked for “all economic and social issues including universal health care, fair housing, jobs with justice, women’s issues, and all ‘movements for peace.’ He fought against nuclear testing at the Nevada test site, the Vietnam War, and the MX Missile Program,” according to CPUSA publication People’s World.

In Chicago, Bill Hogan, a CPUSA member and Catholic priest, joined in the national campaigns to end the U.S. war in Vietnam, was a leader in Chicago Clergy and Laity Concerned (an antiwar group), and “was one of the plaintiffs in a pair of federal lawsuits in 1974 and ’75 that sought to stop alleged Chicago Police Department harassment of political activists,” according to his obituary.

In New York, CPUSA member Rev. Richard Morford was executive director of the National Council of American–Soviet Friendship and a leader of the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam.

During the Vietnam war era, the American Communist movement split into Maoist, Trotskyist, and “democratic socialist” factions. The traditional CPUSA was dramatically reduced in numbers. However, far-left infiltration of seminaries and theological schools increased as thousands of young draft-dodgers opted to promote socialism in divinity school rather than fight communists in Vietnam.

Today, most of the leftist divinity professors and religious leaders come out of the 1960s Maoist and “democratic socialist” movements rather than the CPUSA per se.

However, the CPUSA did continue to make considerable progress in black-majority churches. Since the 1960s, when the CPUSA began to more deeply infiltrate the Democratic Party, a larger emphasis was put on recruiting black pastors. These pastors could be used to promote socialist policies within the Democratic Party, and to keep their congregations loyally voting for the left.

In April 2005, the CPUSA re-organized its Religious Commission with a conference in Des Moines, Iowa. The CPUSA’s People’s World newspaper quoted several participants to give a flavor of the event:

“’The word of God and communism are hand in hand,’ said Diana Sowry, a school bus driver from Ashtabula County, Ohio. … Sowry is a union activist and also active in her church, where she sings in the choir. She feels communists and others who are working to defeat the ultra-right and advance peace, social and economic justice, and socialism are ‘doing the work of the Word.’

“The Rev. Scott Marks, from New Haven, Conn., said ‘people in the pews’ cannot simply stick to ‘feel-good issues,’ but must ‘be willing to go to the wall on the real issues.’ … [Marks] is a Pentecostal minister who leads the Connecticut Center for a New Economy. For him this is doing ‘the real work’ of Jesus. ‘It’s not pie in the sky when we die,’ Marks told the World. ‘It’s how are we going to change things in the here and now.’ …

“In the session on work in local churches, the Rev. Gil Dawes, a retired volunteer pastor at Trinity Methodist Church here, emphasized that grassroots progressive religious activism has deep historical roots, and has to be re-energized today. ‘That’s where the right is way ahead of us,’ he said. …

“’People suffering will become leaders if they have a chance to put it together with other people,’ Dawes said. This kind of Bible study helped turn one congregation from fundamentalist to one of the most progressive, he said.

“In the session on Marx and religion, Paul Nelson, a Lutheran minister who teaches at a community college in Iowa, disputed the idea that Marx opposed all religion. What Marx denounced was an ‘illusory’ form of religion that served as ‘ideological cover for the exercise of aristocratic economic and political power.’”

Today’s Influence

Today’s CPUSA is still very active in the church. Here’s some examples:

Edward Carson is chairman of the Boston Communist Party and was also an editor for The Christian Century “Then and Now” blog.

Michael Adam Reale served on the CPUSA Religious Commission in 2004–2005. Reale told the CPUSA newspaper People’s Weekly World (later changed to People’s World) in 2004:

“I personally felt led to bring into the Communist Party three friends who are active in their faiths, one a Quaker, another who is the pastor of the United Church of Christ, and the third a Jehovah’s Witness—all three had expressed an interest in the party. We all need to confront the myth that communism is anti-religion. Communism is not anti-religion—it is anti-opulence. …

“I came to the Communist Party because of my deep Quaker faith. I have become convinced (a Quaker expression) of the ‘rightness’ of Marxism.”

In 2010, Pierre Williams was secretary of the Religion Commission of the CPUSA. He received his Master of Divinity Degree from Virginia Union University in Richmond, Virginia. He also completed pastoral residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, and served as staff chaplain at Harbor Hospital, Baltimore. He is an ordained minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, and has been a member of the Florida Interfaith Commission on Children and Youth.

Henry Millstein is a practicing Roman Catholic and activist in several faith-based social justice organizations. He serves on the National Committee and the Religion Commission of the CPUSA.

Millstein holds a Ph.D. in Jewish Studies from University of California, Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union, with a focus on Jewish-Christian relations, and has taught humanities and history of religion at Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and the Graduate Theological Union.

Millstein is currently programs manager at Islamic Networks Group in San Jose. His LinkedIn profile states: “His background includes both academic and experiential acquaintance with a variety of cultures and religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Native American traditions. In his current position at ING-Islamic Networks Group, he brings together his experience in moving across boundaries of faith and culture with his passion for peace, nonviolence, and social justice.”

Rev. James Caldwell is one of two black pastors in the Houston Communist Party branch. He is a graduate of Phyllis Wheatley High School and Texas Southern University’s School of Public Affairs. He also attended Dallas Theological Seminary and has been an ordained minister for over 30 years.

Rev. Tim Yeager was, in 2010, chairperson of the Religion Commission of the CPUSA. He has served on the Standing Commission on Anglican and International Peace with Justice Concerns and the Advocacy Center of The Episcopal Church.

After a Christian upbringing in Iowa, Yeager went on to study Russian and History at the University of Iowa. The Vietnam War was raging then, and he became involved in the anti-war movement.

“That opened my eyes to a whole host of issues. I moved away from Christianity and became a Unitarian. As time went on, I became a leader in left-wing student activities… I had read Karl Marx on Ludwig Feuerbach [a German philosopher and anthropologist] and decided that I had to move away from religion altogether and became a Marxist,” Yeager said in a 2015 interview in British local magazine Westcombe News.

Yeager also became chief organizer of the Communist Party in Iowa, but was drawn back to the church by communist pastor Gil Dawes.

“I never really lost my connection to my home church in Iowa. It was part of my family. And then I met a wonderful man named Gil Dawes. He was a Methodist minister and liberation theologian who showed me what I had not really taken on board, that Christianity and socialism had much in common and so I joined his church … but I have to admit that I had not yet become a Christian again in my heart,” Yeager said in same interview.

In 2011, Yeager was ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church, and in 2012 he took on responsibility for serving a small inner-city church on the West Side of Chicago.

He currently serves at a church in London and is a member of the Communist Party of Britain.

Communists want to be Gods on Earth. Their main competition for the minds of men is revealed religion. Attempts to brutally suppress Christianity, Judaism, and Islam in the early days of the Soviet Union proved counter-productive; infiltrating and twisting religion is far more effective. This tactic has been applied all over the world and has made huge inroads in the United States.

Much of what is preached in today’s American churches has been influenced, if not dominated, by communist ideology posing as religion.

All text credit herein as due and owing, with my gratitude and thanks, to:

Trevor Loudon is an author, filmmaker and public speaker from New Zealand. For more than 30 years, he has researched radical left, Marxist and terrorist movements and their covert influence on mainstream politics.

A very sad story all this. And yet there is hope, my dears, as He rolled away the stone:

At Washington, capital city of the terminally self-absorbed, mortal man holds to fleeting, feeble and fallible opinion, God immutable fact.

~~

It is my assessment that America is dying inside, being eaten away by the horror of the collapse of the middle orders, the attendant societal and religious values and customs of those orders and the ubiquity of war making for dubious purpose.

~~

The rich man ought not be taxed at all~~he ought be compelled to employ and train the poor man~~directly~~personally.

~~

The principal need in America today is~~financial and industrial De-Globalization~~to facilitate the promotion of the possibility for the average man to get and keep a good job with good benefits paid by the employer~~as was done not very long ago.~~

CIRE PERDUE~

~~Bene Nati, Bene Vestiti, Et Mediocriter Docti~~

~

~~La crema y nata~~

~

~~Artista de la conquista

~~

In sunshine and in shadow~~I hold tight to the Republican view of time and money~~I write night and day~~yet~~while impecunious~~I am vastly overpaid~~in that taking pay to do what I love is unfair~~to my employer~~in a fair system~~under such circumstances~~I should pay him~~not he me~~I am far, far too old a man to be sexually confused~~praise Jesus~~but I am yet young enough to be politically confused~~is anyone not~~in an absolute sense~~I am a Catholic Royalist~~in a practical sense~~I am a Classical Liberal~~a Gaullist~~a Bonapartist~~an American Nationalist Republican~~in either sense~~my head is soon for the chopping block~~to hasten my interlude with Madame La Guillotine~~I write without fear~and without favor of~any man.

~~

Finis Origine Pendet…

The escape commences…

~~

September, 1957

~~

Saint Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic parochial school, called, by anyone of any background, simply: “Chan~al,” a place where, of an autumn day in 1957, school, for me, began and ended in the first convening of the first grade in which a tiny nun, one Sister Dom Bosco, appeared before me, just behind the window appearing at far left of this photograph, and piped out this: “I may be small, but so then, is the Atom Bomb.”

~~

My determination to escape school commenced immediately on hearing about this Atom Bomb business and took 16 dicey and arduous years to finally accomplish.~~

“Jean-Marie Le Pen is a friend. He is dangerous for the political set because he’s the only one who’s sincere. He says out loud what many people think deep down, and what the politicians refrain from saying because they are either too demagogic or too chicken. Le Pen, with all his faults and qualities, is probably the only one who thinks about the interests of France before his own.”~~

Alain Delon~~Actor

John Daniel Begg raises cotton.

~~

In the Old South, the real Southland, we had a charming expression, when asked what an idle man did for a living:

~~

“Oh, he raises cotton.”

~~

Which meant, he did absolutely nothing at all, as cotton, “the white gold,” raises herself.

CONCEPT OF THE CATHOLIC AND ROYAL ARMY OF AMERICA (CRAA)

THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA

Seal of The Catholic University of America

Motto:

~~

Deus Lux Mea Est

~~

Acta Est Fabula

The escape concludes…

The Catholic University Of America, Washington, The Federal District of Columbia.

~~

1976, Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi.

“Who first seduc'd them to that foul revolt?
Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile
Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd
The Mother of Mankind"
~~
Paradise Lost
Book One
Verse 35
Our Mr Milton
https://johndanielbegg.com/2016/03/09/the-infernal-serpent-he-it-was-whose-guile--stirred-up-with-envy-and-revenge-deceived-the-mother-of-mankind

How short the list one could compile of those of whom it can be said that fame and money did not deprave?

Today is the high water day for the American Alcoholism Industry

john begg

Wind mills and super bowls in Cotton, MN, a little town in alcoholic America:

I haven’t watched any football, to include super bowls, since a boy called Joe Montana hung up his shoes, which raises this question: how old is the average super bowl viewer–I suspect the little children have virtually no role in this secular cum religious fantasy as they’ve so many other distractions–but what is the average age–has anybody researched this at any depth? More directly, how many Americans really follow what is a very dated game anymore?

Regarding the New Yorker article, of which read,–how many Americans who still have any hair left and how many super bowl viewers have ever even heard of Bob Dylan, who was a magnificent poet but whose voice was like fingernails on a chalk board–that aside–he is really, really old–so if the old “this Bud’s for you” crowd thinks using Dylan’s music to demonstrate that the company has fully signed in to the Democratic Party’s childish preachments about wind mill energy–again–who is their audience?

The larger issue is–no advertising man–and they are simply the brightest men in commerce as they can get into your head and you can’t shake them loose–ever–no ad man can make Budweiser taste good–nor wind mills warm Cotton, MN either.

As a sidebar, I wonder what the fans in Cotton, MN, where this week there was an absolute high of negative 56F–disregarding wind chill–yes I said negative 56F, think about risking their tenuous winter existence to Democratic Party canards about wind mill devices to keep them warm?

This final missive–sports–to include football is about, especially the super bowl, gambling, faux camaraderie and alcoholism—American sport sells fake joint amusement and drunkenness and gambling–that’s it–that’s the job.

At Washington, capital city of the terminally self-absorbed, mortal man holds to fleeting, feeble and fallible opinion, God immutable fact.

~~

It is my assessment that America is dying inside, being eaten away by the horror of the collapse of the middle orders, the attendant societal and religious values and customs of those orders and the ubiquity of war making for dubious purpose.

~~

The rich man ought not be taxed at all~~he ought be compelled to employ and train the poor man~~directly~~personally.

~~

The principal need in America today is~~financial and industrial De-Globalization~~to facilitate the promotion of the possibility for the average man to get and keep a good job with good benefits paid by the employer~~as was done not very long ago.~~

CIRE PERDUE~

~~Bene Nati, Bene Vestiti, Et Mediocriter Docti~~

~

~~La crema y nata~~

~

~~Artista de la conquista

~~

In sunshine and in shadow~~I hold tight to the Republican view of time and money~~I write night and day~~yet~~while impecunious~~I am vastly overpaid~~in that taking pay to do what I love is unfair~~to my employer~~in a fair system~~under such circumstances~~I should pay him~~not he me~~I am far, far too old a man to be sexually confused~~praise Jesus~~but I am yet young enough to be politically confused~~is anyone not~~in an absolute sense~~I am a Catholic Royalist~~in a practical sense~~I am a Classical Liberal~~a Gaullist~~a Bonapartist~~an American Nationalist Republican~~in either sense~~my head is soon for the chopping block~~to hasten my interlude with Madame La Guillotine~~I write without fear~and without favor of~any man.

~~

Finis Origine Pendet…

The escape commences…

~~

September, 1957

~~

Saint Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic parochial school, called, by anyone of any background, simply: “Chan~al,” a place where, of an autumn day in 1957, school, for me, began and ended in the first convening of the first grade in which a tiny nun, one Sister Dom Bosco, appeared before me, just behind the window appearing at far left of this photograph, and piped out this: “I may be small, but so then, is the Atom Bomb.”

~~

My determination to escape school commenced immediately on hearing about this Atom Bomb business and took 16 dicey and arduous years to finally accomplish.~~

“Jean-Marie Le Pen is a friend. He is dangerous for the political set because he’s the only one who’s sincere. He says out loud what many people think deep down, and what the politicians refrain from saying because they are either too demagogic or too chicken. Le Pen, with all his faults and qualities, is probably the only one who thinks about the interests of France before his own.”~~

Alain Delon~~Actor

John Daniel Begg raises cotton.

~~

In the Old South, the real Southland, we had a charming expression, when asked what an idle man did for a living:

~~

“Oh, he raises cotton.”

~~

Which meant, he did absolutely nothing at all, as cotton, “the white gold,” raises herself.

CONCEPT OF THE CATHOLIC AND ROYAL ARMY OF AMERICA (CRAA)

THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA

Seal of The Catholic University of America

Motto:

~~

Deus Lux Mea Est

~~

Acta Est Fabula

The escape concludes…

The Catholic University Of America, Washington, The Federal District of Columbia.

~~

1976, Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi.

“Who first seduc'd them to that foul revolt?
Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile
Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd
The Mother of Mankind"
~~
Paradise Lost
Book One
Verse 35
Our Mr Milton
https://johndanielbegg.com/2016/03/09/the-infernal-serpent-he-it-was-whose-guile--stirred-up-with-envy-and-revenge-deceived-the-mother-of-mankind

How short the list one could compile of those of whom it can be said that fame and money did not deprave?

At Washington, capital city of the terminally self-absorbed, mortal man holds to fleeting, feeble and fallible opinion, God immutable fact.

~~

It is my assessment that America is dying inside, being eaten away by the horror of the collapse of the middle orders, the attendant societal and religious values and customs of those orders and the ubiquity of war making for dubious purpose.

~~

The rich man ought not be taxed at all~~he ought be compelled to employ and train the poor man~~directly~~personally.

~~

The principal need in America today is~~financial and industrial De-Globalization~~to facilitate the promotion of the possibility for the average man to get and keep a good job with good benefits paid by the employer~~as was done not very long ago.~~

CIRE PERDUE~

~~Bene Nati, Bene Vestiti, Et Mediocriter Docti~~

~

~~La crema y nata~~

~

~~Artista de la conquista

~~

In sunshine and in shadow~~I hold tight to the Republican view of time and money~~I write night and day~~yet~~while impecunious~~I am vastly overpaid~~in that taking pay to do what I love is unfair~~to my employer~~in a fair system~~under such circumstances~~I should pay him~~not he me~~I am far, far too old a man to be sexually confused~~praise Jesus~~but I am yet young enough to be politically confused~~is anyone not~~in an absolute sense~~I am a Catholic Royalist~~in a practical sense~~I am a Classical Liberal~~a Gaullist~~a Bonapartist~~an American Nationalist Republican~~in either sense~~my head is soon for the chopping block~~to hasten my interlude with Madame La Guillotine~~I write without fear~and without favor of~any man.

~~

Finis Origine Pendet…

The escape commences…

~~

September, 1957

~~

Saint Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic parochial school, called, by anyone of any background, simply: “Chan~al,” a place where, of an autumn day in 1957, school, for me, began and ended in the first convening of the first grade in which a tiny nun, one Sister Dom Bosco, appeared before me, just behind the window appearing at far left of this photograph, and piped out this: “I may be small, but so then, is the Atom Bomb.”

~~

My determination to escape school commenced immediately on hearing about this Atom Bomb business and took 16 dicey and arduous years to finally accomplish.~~

“Jean-Marie Le Pen is a friend. He is dangerous for the political set because he’s the only one who’s sincere. He says out loud what many people think deep down, and what the politicians refrain from saying because they are either too demagogic or too chicken. Le Pen, with all his faults and qualities, is probably the only one who thinks about the interests of France before his own.”~~

Alain Delon~~Actor

John Daniel Begg raises cotton.

~~

In the Old South, the real Southland, we had a charming expression, when asked what an idle man did for a living:

~~

“Oh, he raises cotton.”

~~

Which meant, he did absolutely nothing at all, as cotton, “the white gold,” raises herself.

CONCEPT OF THE CATHOLIC AND ROYAL ARMY OF AMERICA (CRAA)

THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA

Seal of The Catholic University of America

Motto:

~~

Deus Lux Mea Est

~~

Acta Est Fabula

The escape concludes…

The Catholic University Of America, Washington, District of Columbia.

~~

1976, Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi.

“Who first seduc'd them to that foul revolt?
Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile
Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd
The Mother of Mankind"
~~
Paradise Lost
Book One
Verse 35
Our Mr Milton
https://johndanielbegg.com/2016/03/09/the-infernal-serpent-he-it-was-whose-guile--stirred-up-with-envy-and-revenge-deceived-the-mother-of-mankind

How short the list one could compile of those of whom it can be said that fame and money did not deprave?

Just might strike the current ear as either quaint or lacking in meaning altogether.~~

And that is not for the better, but rather for the poorer, for all of us.

~~

George Herbert Walker Bush took to heart and took to high office a sense of

DUTY~~

A duty that, of itself, emanates from the proper notion of noblesse oblige. As an aside, King George died shortly after my birth and Queen Elizabeth has repeatedly mentioned that her Father schooled her principally as to Her DUTY.

~~

Queen has performed Her DUTY admirably and without any trace of scandal or personal aggrandizement in the intervening 63 years. She is, truly, an admirable figure.

~~

So, too, George Herbert Walker Bush, took his sense of duty, of giving back to the nation that had given him such great advantage, very, very seriously.

~~

It has been said of him and it is true that he is the only President, save perhaps some of the men who were here at the foundation, who was “born to be President.”

~~

And, so he was.

~~

The PA world that so formed and likewise so suited President Bush arguably doesn’t exist anymore.

~~

Life is all Helter-skelter and we are not better men for that

~~

but

~~

well then

~~

there it is.

~~

Our world lacks today for order and constancy

~~

and selfless duty.

~~

George Herbert Walker Bush did not inspire in people love and affection in the way that President Reagan did

~~

but of course he was a very different sort of man.

~~

And, he was a good man.

~~

A man driven principally by duty derived of social ranking

~~

which today we could have a great deal more of

~~

if we can, please, thank you.

~~

George Herbert Walker Bush was, first, middle, and last,

all sorts of

~~

a swell PA lad.

George Herbert Walker Bush June 12, 1924–November 30, 2018.

Hail and Farewell

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

~

IL MIGLIOR FABBRO

At Washington, capital city of the terminally self-absorbed, mortal man holds to fleeting, feeble and fallible opinion, God immutable fact.

~~

It is my assessment that America is dying inside, being eaten away by the horror of the collapse of the middle orders, the attendant societal and religious values and customs of those orders and the ubiquity of war making for dubious purpose.

~~

The rich man ought not be taxed at all~~he ought be compelled to employ and train the poor man~~directly~~personally.

~~

The principal need in America today is~~financial and industrial De-Globalization~~to facilitate the promotion of the possibility for the average man to get and keep a good job with good benefits paid by the employer~~as was done not very long ago.~~

CIRE PERDUE~

~~Bene Nati, Bene Vestiti, Et Mediocriter Docti~~

~

~~La crema y nata~~

~

~~Artista de la conquista

~~

In sunshine and in shadow~~I hold tight to the Republican view of time and money~~I write night and day~~yet~~while impecunious~~I am vastly overpaid~~in that taking pay to do what I love is unfair~~to my employer~~in a fair system~~under such circumstances~~I should pay him~~not he me~~I am far, far too old a man to be sexually confused~~praise Jesus~~but I am yet young enough to be politically confused~~is anyone not~~in an absolute sense~~I am a Catholic Royalist~~in a practical sense~~I am a Classical Liberal~~a Gaullist~~a Bonapartist~~an American Nationalist Republican~~in either sense~~my head is soon for the chopping block~~to hasten my interlude with Madame La Guillotine~~I write without fear~and without favor of~any man.

~~

Finis Origine Pendet…

The escape commences…

~~

September, 1957

~~

Saint Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic parochial school, called, by anyone of any background, simply: “Chan~al,” a place where, of an autumn day in 1957, school, for me, began and ended in the first convening of the first grade in which a tiny nun, one Sister Dom Bosco, appeared before me, just behind the window appearing at far left of this photograph, and piped out this: “I may be small, but so then, is the Atom Bomb.”

~~

My determination to escape school commenced immediately on hearing about this Atom Bomb business and took 16 dicey and arduous years to finally accomplish.~~

“Jean-Marie Le Pen is a friend. He is dangerous for the political set because he’s the only one who’s sincere. He says out loud what many people think deep down, and what the politicians refrain from saying because they are either too demagogic or too chicken. Le Pen, with all his faults and qualities, is probably the only one who thinks about the interests of France before his own.”~~

Alain Delon~~Actor

John Daniel Begg raises cotton.

~~

In the Old South, the real Southland, we had a charming expression, when asked what an idle man did for a living:

~~

“Oh, he raises cotton.”

~~

Which meant, he did absolutely nothing at all, as cotton, “the white gold,” raises herself.

CONCEPT OF THE CATHOLIC AND ROYAL ARMY OF AMERICA (CRAA)

THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA

Seal of The Catholic University of America

Motto:

~~

Deus Lux Mea Est

~~

Acta Est Fabula

The escape concludes…

The Catholic University Of America, Washington, District of Columbia.

~~

1976, Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi.

“Who first seduc'd them to that foul revolt?
Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile
Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd
The Mother of Mankind"
~~
Paradise Lost
Book One
Verse 35
Our Mr Milton
https://johndanielbegg.com/2016/03/09/the-infernal-serpent-he-it-was-whose-guile--stirred-up-with-envy-and-revenge-deceived-the-mother-of-mankind

How short the list one could compile of those of whom it can be said that fame and money did not deprave?

~~

Report Finds Suicides Are Even More Common Than Gun Homicides

NPR’s Michel Martin talks with Kris Brown, co-president at the Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence about a new report regarding victims of gun violence in America.

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:

This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I’m Michel Martin. We want to return to a subject that appears often on this and other news programs, and that subject is gun violence. Whether the issue is police killings or mass shootings or street violence, those are tragic. But it turns out that gun suicides claim far more lives than any of those other issues. Suicides from guns make up nearly two-thirds of all gun deaths in the United States, and they overwhelmingly affect white men. That is according to a report by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. That’s an advocacy group focused on reducing gun violence. We asked Kris Brown, co-president of the Brady Center, to talk with us about this in greater detail. Kris, thanks so much for speaking with us.

KRIS BROWN: It’s a pleasure to be here.

MARTIN: So there are two things that stood out in this report, and I want to take them separately if we can, even though they are perhaps related. The first is that suicide is so much more prevalent than homicides. You said that the demographics of suicide-related gun violence overall skew heavily toward white men who make up 79 percent of all firearm suicide victims and about 60 percent of total gun deaths in the U.S. So first of all, why is it that suicide is so much more prevalent than homicide and that we don’t talk about it that much? Is there a shame factor? Is it – why is that?

BROWN: I think there are a variety of myths around the issue of suicide. It’s not something that’s well understood. There are I think societal factors that you’re referencing that also play a component part of it. The reality that I have learned is that suicide is a rash act, and it’s one that the vast majority of people who attempt it who don’t succeed the first time actually never go on to commit again. That’s why the introduction of guns is such a dangerous factor because very sadly and as you know 90 percent of the time an individual who attempts suicide by a gun is successful.

MARTIN: Then the second part of it is the demographic part because if you look at the totality of deaths from guns, white men are vastly overrepresented, you know, as we said – as we said that white males are 60 percent of total gun deaths in the United States and 79 percent of all firearm suicide victims. Why is that?

BROWN: It’s again the demographic of the individuals who have these guns.

MARTIN: And is that because white men are overrepresented among gun owners?

BROWN: Yes, that’s correct. And it’s because frankly the NRA and other lobbying groups have been doing a very successful job of selling more and more of their product to these individuals.

MARTIN: So the report recommends something called an extreme risk protection order. Can you tell me a little bit about what that is?

BROWN: Yes. An extreme risk protection order is a legislative and legal vehicle that allows family members and police if they see someone in crisis, someone who’s exhibiting behaviors that indicate they’re a danger to themselves or others to get a court order and remove guns temporarily from that person’s home.

MARTIN: Before we let you go, I should mention that this is the time of year when a number of advocacy groups do try to draw attention to the prevalence of suicide in the society.

BROWN: Yes.

MARTIN: And I just wondered if there’s anything else that you have learned as a result of your work in this area that you’d want to mention.

BROWN: Suicide is a rash act, that you can reach out and talk to people who you believe are at risk, and really it’s important to do so. Let them know that there are many services for them available to talk things out, and really make sure that the presence of something lethal like a gun in their house – if you know that there is something like that there, that you try and talk to them about that and reduce the risk.

MARTIN: That’s Kris Brown, co-president of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. It’s an advocacy group that is dedicated to reducing gun deaths. She was kind enough to join us in our studios in Washington, D.C. Kris Brown, thanks so much for speaking with us.

NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb8tm, Inc., an NPR contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription process developed with NPR. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Accuracy and availability may vary. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

IL MIGLIOR FABBRO

At Washington, capital city of the terminally self-absorbed, mortal man holds to fleeting, feeble and fallible opinion, God immutable fact.

~~

It is my assessment that America is dying inside, being eaten away by the horror of the collapse of the middle orders, the attendant societal and religious values and customs of those orders and the ubiquity of war making for dubious purpose.

~~

The rich man ought not be taxed at all~~he ought be compelled to employ and train the poor man~~directly~~personally.

~~

The principal need in America today is~~financial and industrial De-Globalization~~to facilitate the promotion of the possibility for the average man to get and keep a good job with good benefits paid by the employer~~as was done not very long ago.~~

CIRE PERDUE~

~~Bene Nati, Bene Vestiti, Et Mediocriter Docti~~

~

~~La crema y nata~~

~

~~Artista de la conquista

~~

In sunshine and in shadow~~I hold tight to the Republican view of time and money~~I write night and day~~yet~~while impecunious~~I am vastly overpaid~~in that taking pay to do what I love is unfair~~to my employer~~in a fair system~~under such circumstances~~I should pay him~~not he me~~I am far, far too old a man to be sexually confused~~praise Jesus~~but I am yet young enough to be politically confused~~is anyone not~~in an absolute sense~~I am a Catholic Royalist~~in a practical sense~~I am a Classical Liberal~~a Gaullist~~a Bonapartist~~an American Nationalist Republican~~in either sense~~my head is soon for the chopping block~~to hasten my interlude with Madame La Guillotine~~I write without fear~and without favor of~any man.

~~

Finis Origine Pendet…

The escape commences…

~~

September, 1957

~~

Saint Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic parochial school, called, by anyone of any background, simply: “Chan~al,” a place where, of an autumn day in 1957, school, for me, began and ended in the first convening of the first grade in which a tiny nun, one Sister Dom Bosco, appeared before me, just behind the window appearing at far left of this photograph, and piped out this: “I may be small, but so then, is the Atom Bomb.”

~~

My determination to escape school commenced immediately on hearing about this Atom Bomb business and took 16 dicey and arduous years to finally accomplish.~~

“Jean-Marie Le Pen is a friend. He is dangerous for the political set because he’s the only one who’s sincere. He says out loud what many people think deep down, and what the politicians refrain from saying because they are either too demagogic or too chicken. Le Pen, with all his faults and qualities, is probably the only one who thinks about the interests of France before his own.”~~

Alain Delon~~Actor

John Daniel Begg raises cotton.

~~

In the Old South, the real Southland, we had a charming expression, when asked what an idle man did for a living:

~~

“Oh, he raises cotton.”

~~

Which meant, he did absolutely nothing at all, as cotton, “the white gold,” raises herself.

CONCEPT OF THE CATHOLIC AND ROYAL ARMY OF AMERICA (CRAA)

THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA

Seal of The Catholic University of America

Motto:

~~

Deus Lux Mea Est

~~

Acta Est Fabula

The escape concludes…

The Catholic University Of America, Washington, District of Columbia.

~~

1976, Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi.

“Who first seduc'd them to that foul revolt?
Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile
Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd
The Mother of Mankind"
~~
Paradise Lost
Book One
Verse 35
Our Mr Milton
https://johndanielbegg.com/2016/03/09/the-infernal-serpent-he-it-was-whose-guile--stirred-up-with-envy-and-revenge-deceived-the-mother-of-mankind

How short the list one could compile of those of whom it can be said that fame and money did not deprave?

At Washington, capital city of the terminally self-absorbed, mortal man holds to fleeting, feeble and fallible opinion, God immutable fact.

~~

It is my assessment that America is dying inside, being eaten away by the horror of the collapse of the middle orders, the attendant societal and religious values and customs of those orders and the ubiquity of war making for dubious purpose.

~~

The rich man ought not be taxed at all~~he ought be compelled to employ and train the poor man~~directly~~personally.

~~

The principal need in America today is~~financial and industrial De-Globalization~~to facilitate the promotion of the possibility for the average man to get and keep a good job with good benefits paid by the employer~~as was done not very long ago.~~

CIRE PERDUE~

~~Bene Nati, Bene Vestiti, Et Mediocriter Docti~~

~

~~La crema y nata~~

~

~~Artista de la conquista

~~

In sunshine and in shadow~~I hold tight to the Republican view of time and money~~I write night and day~~yet~~while impecunious~~I am vastly overpaid~~in that taking pay to do what I love is unfair~~to my employer~~in a fair system~~under such circumstances~~I should pay him~~not he me~~I am far, far too old a man to be sexually confused~~praise Jesus~~but I am yet young enough to be politically confused~~is anyone not~~in an absolute sense~~I am a Catholic Royalist~~in a practical sense~~I am a Classical Liberal~~a Gaullist~~a Bonapartist~~an American Nationalist Republican~~in either sense~~my head is soon for the chopping block~~to hasten my interlude with Madame La Guillotine~~I write without fear~and without favor of~any man.

~~

Finis Origine Pendet…

The escape commences…

~~

September, 1957

~~

Saint Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic parochial school, called, by anyone of any background, simply: “Chan~al,” a place where, of an autumn day in 1957, school, for me, began and ended in the first convening of the first grade in which a tiny nun, one Sister Dom Bosco, appeared before me, just behind the window appearing at far left of this photograph, and piped out this: “I may be small, but so then, is the Atom Bomb.”

~~

My determination to escape school commenced immediately on hearing about this Atom Bomb business and took 16 dicey and arduous years to finally accomplish.~~

“Jean-Marie Le Pen is a friend. He is dangerous for the political set because he’s the only one who’s sincere. He says out loud what many people think deep down, and what the politicians refrain from saying because they are either too demagogic or too chicken. Le Pen, with all his faults and qualities, is probably the only one who thinks about the interests of France before his own.”~~

Alain Delon~~Actor

John Daniel Begg raises cotton.

~~

In the Old South, the real Southland, we had a charming expression, when asked what an idle man did for a living:

~~

“Oh, he raises cotton.”

~~

Which meant, he did absolutely nothing at all, as cotton, “the white gold,” raises herself.

CONCEPT OF THE CATHOLIC AND ROYAL ARMY OF AMERICA (CRAA)

THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA

Seal of The Catholic University of America

Motto:

~~

Deus Lux Mea Est

~~

Acta Est Fabula

The escape concludes…

The Catholic University Of America, Washington, The Federal District of Columbia.

~~

1976, Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi.

“Who first seduc'd them to that foul revolt?
Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile
Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd
The Mother of Mankind"
~~
Paradise Lost
Book One
Verse 35
Our Mr Milton
https://johndanielbegg.com/2016/03/09/the-infernal-serpent-he-it-was-whose-guile--stirred-up-with-envy-and-revenge-deceived-the-mother-of-mankind

How short the list one could compile of those of whom it can be said that fame and money did not deprave?

Politics on the campaign trail is an exercise in blood-red, raw, emotion.

~~

Politics in the practical has nothing to do with ideology or high-brow ideas.

~~

Politics is about winning.

~~

Only.

~~

I’ve met Don Trump many times over a number of decades. He likes to win, which is why, coupled with the knowledge that he has never tasted booze in any form, I picked him as the easiest racehorse I have ever touted in 2015 to win the White House in 2016. And I’ve been picking political racehorses for many, many decades.

~~

In 2016, Don Trump’s singular job was to win.

~~

At this juncture in a President’s first term, the singular job becomes to:

~~

Win again.

~~

Don Trump, his health permitting, will win again in 2020, likely by a long margin, because Americans like men who like to win.

~~

Don Trump now controls a Republican Party at the Imperial City that detests him even more viscerally than did the The Republican Party of the 1980’s detest Ron Reagan and the Party detested Ron Reagan to a remarkable degree.

~~

The GOP at The Imperial City in 2017 is completely useless. Simply useless. They hold all the cards and they refuse to even play them.

~~

Men at The Imperial City whisper to me:

~~

“Johnnie, this pal of yours, Donnie Trump, will destroy The GOP we have known and loved all our lives.”

~~

To which, I reply:

~~

“Well, Goodee, Good, as

~~

The GOP at The Imperial City today ought well to be destroyed because it is utterly useless.”

~~

I would do just as Don Trump has now done in his dining with Democrats….

~~

Me thinking…

~~

“If my own men won’t give me what I want; I’ll go wherever so I need to go:

At Washington, capital city of the terminally self-absorbed, mortal man holds to fleeting, feeble and fallible opinion, God immutable fact.

~~

It is my assessment that America is dying inside, being eaten away by the horror of the collapse of the middle orders, the attendant societal and religious values and customs of those orders and the ubiquity of war making for dubious purpose.

~~

The rich man ought not be taxed at all~~he ought be compelled to employ and train the poor man~~directly~~personally.

~~

The principal need in America today is~~financial and industrial De-Globalization~~to facilitate the promotion of the possibility for the average man to get and keep a good job with good benefits paid by the employer~~as was done not very long ago.~~

CIRE PERDUE~

~~Bene Nati, Bene Vestiti, Et Mediocriter Docti~~

~

~~La crema y nata~~

~

~~Artista de la conquista

~~

In sunshine and in shadow~~I hold tight to the Republican view of time and money~~I write night and day~~yet~~while impecunious~~I am vastly overpaid~~in that taking pay to do what I love is unfair~~to my employer~~in a fair system~~under such circumstances~~I should pay him~~not he me~~I am far, far too old a man to be sexually confused~~praise Jesus~~but I am yet young enough to be politically confused~~is anyone not~~in an absolute sense~~I am a Catholic Royalist~~in a practical sense~~I am a Classical Liberal~~a Gaullist~~a Bonapartist~~an American Nationalist Republican~~in either sense~~my head is soon for the chopping block~~to hasten my interlude with Madame La Guillotine~~I write without fear~and without favor of~any man.

~~

Finis Origine Pendet…

The escape commences…

~~

September, 1957

~~

Saint Jane Frances de Chantal Catholic parochial school, called, by anyone of any background, simply: “Chan~al,” a place where, of an autumn day in 1957, school, for me, began and ended in the first convening of the first grade in which a tiny nun, one Sister Dom Bosco, appeared before me, just behind the window appearing at far left of this photograph, and piped out this: “I may be small, but so then, is the Atom Bomb.”

~~

My determination to escape school commenced immediately on hearing about this Atom Bomb business and took 16 dicey and arduous years to finally accomplish.~~

“Jean-Marie Le Pen is a friend. He is dangerous for the political set because he’s the only one who’s sincere. He says out loud what many people think deep down, and what the politicians refrain from saying because they are either too demagogic or too chicken. Le Pen, with all his faults and qualities, is probably the only one who thinks about the interests of France before his own.”~~

Alain Delon~~Actor

John Daniel Begg raises cotton.

~~

In the Old South, the real Southland, we had a charming expression, when asked what an idle man did for a living:

~~

“Oh, he raises cotton.”

~~

Which meant, he did absolutely nothing at all, as cotton, “the white gold,” raises herself.

CONCEPT OF THE CATHOLIC AND ROYAL ARMY OF AMERICA (CRAA)

THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA

Seal of The Catholic University of America

Motto:

~~

Deus Lux Mea Est

~~

Acta Est Fabula

The escape concludes…

The Catholic University Of America, Washington, The Federal District of Columbia.

~~

1976, Anno Domini Nostri Iesu Christi.

“Who first seduc'd them to that foul revolt?
Th' infernal Serpent; he it was, whose guile
Stird up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd
The Mother of Mankind"
~~
Paradise Lost
Book One
Verse 35
Our Mr Milton
https://johndanielbegg.com/2016/03/09/the-infernal-serpent-he-it-was-whose-guile--stirred-up-with-envy-and-revenge-deceived-the-mother-of-mankind

How short the list one could compile of those of whom it can be said that fame and money did not deprave?